Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 10, 1898
Died
Sep 24, 1968
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
53 titles
Virginia Valli
Biography
From Wikipedia Virginia Valli (June 10, 1898 – September 24, 1968) was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s. Born Virginia McSweeney in Chicago, Illinois, she got her acting start in Milwaukee with a stock company. She also did some film work with Essanay Studios in her hometown of Chicago, starting in 1916. Valli continued to appear in films throughout the 1920s. She was an established star at the Universal studio by the mid-1920s. In 1924 she was the female lead in King Vidor's Southern Gothic Wild Oranges, a film now being seen after several decades of film vault obscurity. She also appeared in the romantic comedy, Every Woman's Life, about "the man she could have married, the man she should have married and the man she DID marry." She made the bulk of her films between 1924 and 1927 including Alfred Hitchcock's debut feature, The Pleasure Garden, Paid To Love (1927), with William Powell, and Evening Clothes (1927), which featured Adolphe Menjou. In 1925 Valli performed in The Man Who Found Himself with Thomas Meighan. The production was made at a Long Island, New York studio. Her first sound picture was The Isle of Lost Ships in 1929, but her film career would not last much longer due to declining fame. Unable to find a suitable studio, she quit films after making the quickie Night Life in Reno, in 1931. Valli was first married to George Lamson and the two shared a small bungalow in Hollywood, in close proximity to the Hollywood Hotel. In 1931, she married her second husband, actor Charles Farrell, to whom she remained married until her death. They moved to Palm Springs, where she was a social fixture for many years. She suffered a stroke in 1966, and died two years later, aged 70, in Palm Springs, California. She was buried in the Welwood Murray Cemetery of that city.
Known For
Filmography
Night Life in Reno
June Wyatt
Guilty?
Carolyn
The Lost Zeppelin
Miriam Hall
The Isle of Lost Ships
Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
Mister Antonio
June Ramsey
Behind Closed Doors
Nina Laska
The Street of Illusion
Sylvia Thurston
Ladies Must Dress
Eve
East Side, West Side
Becka Lipvitch
Judgement Of The Hills
Margaret Dix
Paid to Love
Gaby
Evening Clothes
Germaine
Marriage
Marjorie Pope
Stage Madness
Madame Lamphier
Flames
Anne Travers
The Family Upstairs
Louise Heller
Watch Your Wife
Claudia Langham
The Pleasure Garden
Patsy Brand
Siege
Frederika
The Man Who Found Himself
Nora Brooks
The Lady Who Lied
Fay Kennion
Up the Ladder
Jane Cornwall
The Price of Pleasure
Linnie Randall
K - The Unknown
Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
In Every Woman's Life
Sara Langford
The Signal Tower
Sally Tolliver
The Confidence Man
Margaret Leland
Wild Oranges
Millie Stope
A Lady of Quality
Clorinda Wildairs
The Shock
Gertrude Hadley
The Village Blacksmith
Alice Hammond
The Storm
Manette Fachard
The Black Bag
Dorothy Calender
His Back Against the Wall
Mary Welling
Tracked to Earth
Anna Jones
The Right That Failed
Constance Talbot
The Devil Within
Laura
A Trip to Paradise
Nora O'Brien
The Man Who
Mary Turner
Sentimental Tommy
Lady Alice Pippinworth
The Silver Lining
Evelyn Schofield
The Common Sin
The Dead Line
Julia Weston
The Very Idea
Edith Goodhue
The Midnight Bride
Helen Dorr
The Black Circle
Lucy Baird
Ruggles of Red Gap
Widow Judson
Uneasy Money
Elizabeth Nutcombe
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
Mary Pierce
Filling His Own Shoes
Roxana